9th Bangalore Business Literature Festival

India's largest and most anticipated business literature festival is back. Meet top authors, business leaders and industry experts who dwell on topics that are most urgent to - employees, entrepreneurs and business school students.

Hot topics covered include - Future of careers, Inspiring Entrepreneur stories - Startup entrepreneurs' challenges - Success stories of social entrepreneurs - How Technologies are going to influence our lives - New Book launches - writing best business books - Best Business Book awards, and much more.

Come with your colleagues and friends and enjoy a day full of insights, inspirations and what's more, make new business contacts.

9.00 am to 10.00 am

Registration and Networking

10.00 am to 10.15 am

Inaugural Session

10.15 am to 10.45 am

An Author's Journey to New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2022

Dr. Harini Nagendra, Author, Director, Research Centre at Azim Premji University, with

Shinie Antony, Author, Curator, Bangalore Literature Festival

10.45 am to 11.00 am

WiseViews - Lessons from the Game Changers

Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group, with

Shankar P, Writer/editor at Knowledge at Wharton, Former Resident Editor, The Economic Times

11.00 am to 11.15 am

Tea | Browsing | Networking

11.15 am to 11.45 am

Dream a Billion Dream and How to Make it Happen

B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Author of Engineered in India: From Dreams to Billion-Dollar CYIENT, with

Mukesh Sud, Associate Professor - Strategy Area, IIM Ahmedabad, Author of Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive at Work

11.45 am to 12.30 pm

Work 3.0 – Future of Careers in the AI World

Sameer Dhanrajani, CEO, AIQRATE Advisory & Consulting | President, 3AI | AI Advisor, Author of AI and Analytics: Accelerating Business Decisions,

Kavitha Rao, Managing Director, Accenture | Experienced Business Leader in Retail & Consumer | ICF ACC Coach | Speaker & Blogger | Mountaineer & Traveller, and

Arvind Tiwary, Futurist, Technopreneur, with

Kashyap Kompella, Author of Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook

12.30 pm to 1.00 pm

The Harsh Secrets of India's Successful Social Entrepreneurs

Nagaraja Prakasam, Author of Back to Bharat: In Search of a Sustainable Future, Start-up Mentor @ IIM Bangalore NSRCEL, with

Wilma Rodrigues, Founder and CEO, Saahas Zero Waste

1.00 pm to 1.45 pm

Lunch | Entertainment | Networking

1.45 pm to 2.30 pm

India’s Next Big IT and Tech Story

Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures, Co-founder, Infosys, President, ISF, Co-author of Against All Odds: The IT Story of India, with

Jayanth N Kolla, Telecom | Deep Tech | Health Care - Technocrat; Consultant; Entrepreneur; Board Member; Global Speaker; Author

2.30 pm to 3.15 pm

Shark Tank and Winning Middle India

Prerna Lidhoo, Author of Shark Tank India: Startup Fundas from the Sharks and Participants, and

T.N. Hari, Author of Winning Middle India: The Story of India’s New-age Entrepreneurs, with

Swati Jena, Founder, WriteFor, Author of The Entrepreneur’s Soulbook, Co-author of Diversity Beyond Tokenism, a TEDx speaker

3.15 pm to 3.30 pm

Tea | Browsing | Networking

3.30 pm to 4.00 pm

Rapid New Book Launches

4.00 pm to 5.00 pm

Draw Parallels from Outside and Win Big

Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Authors of Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels, with

Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore, Author of From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India

5.00 pm to 5.30 pm

Straight Talk

Ashoka Mody, Author of India is Broken: And Why it's Hard to Fix, with

Dr. V. Raghunathan, Chair, Bangalore Bizlitfest, Author of Irrationally Rational: Ten Nobel Laureates Script the Story of Behavioural Economics

5.30 pm to 6.00 pm

2023 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony

Host - Benedict Paramanand - Author, Editor, SustainabilityNext, Co-founder, Bangalore BizLitFest, Co-founder, Greenlitfest

· Award and Talk by the Chief Guest · Acceptance Speech by the Winner · Jury Remarks

Jury

Prof. G. Raghuram

Former Director, IIM Bangalore,

Former Dean, IIM Ahmedabad

Mekin Maheshwari

Founder, Udhyam Learning Foundation

Stuthi Vijayaraghavan

Former McKinsey Consultant and Founder, Urban Tech Labs